Best Of Australian Shorts 5 – 2021
The 5th of seven programmes featuring the best of Australian short films in competition.
Our home-grown talent battle it out for the prestigious Academy® qualifying award for Best Australian Short Film.
Screening: Mon 25 Jan, 9pm | Runtime: 111 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
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Glen
Deep into his first lockdown, 50-year-old Glen is given a second chance at love… but only if he can summon the courage to come face to Facebook with the perils of online seduction.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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The Listening
Freya and Dan move to the country to have their first child; as the pregnancy develops they lose their grip on reality. Distance and time, dreams and waking life, the living and the dead converge.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 25min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Alba
The fragile relationship between a father and daughter is tested when an unexpected call jeopardises their time together.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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In The Wake
After a devastating car crash involving her thrill-seeking sister, Alice is left with only her grieving mother and buried memories of the event.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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An Athlete Wrestling A Python
Life imitates art when Julien Goethe directs an unhinged version of An Athlete Wrestling A Python
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 17min
- Year: 2019
- Country: Australia
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Furlough
FURLOUGH follows a day-in-the-life of two sisters, 16 and 17, who embark on an adventure tiptoeing the line between freedom and responsibility. What appears to be a dangerous game of living on the edge, is really about making the most of the fleeting, precious moments we have here on this earth.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 17min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Idol
A young Chinese celebrity is called into an emergency meeting, after a fan of his commits suicide.
- Runtime: 19min
- Year: 2019
- Country: Australia
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Straight Outta Covid
Two kids post Covid lockdown discuss what matters most…to them!
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia